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To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

— Leo Buscaglia Living, Loving, and Learning (1982)

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A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

A Magazine of People and Possibilities interview (1998)

People are not here to meet your expectations.

Living, Loving, and Learning (1982)

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

Born For Love (1994)

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Speaking Of Love (1980)

One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.

LOVE (1972)

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
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